Episode 29: Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world

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Episode 29: Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world

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Jun 13, 2018

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Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing.

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Jun 13, 2018

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Bespoken Bones supports the development of radiant erotic wellness in past, present and future generations! The intention of this podcast is to create a rich, multi-disciplinary archive of research around the topics of ancestors, sexuality, trauma, and ecology.

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Episode 001: Pathways for the Blessings: Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 005: Time travel, erotic states and trauma healing: Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex, speaks on how erotic states of being are altered states, and can be used to create change and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 003 : Accessing the Realm of the Ancestors: Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors: Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 22: Queer mysteries and Leather ancestors: Sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington of Passion and Soul speaks on the mighty queer dead, erotic ancestral practice, and kink and leather ancestral lineages. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 009: Plants are our ancestors: Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 14: Ancestors and Italian Folk Magic: Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 29: Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world: Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
47 min listen
Episode 004: Lipstick, Green Man and ancestor-supported creative process: Artist Keith Hennessy speaks on how the ancestors move through him as he creates radical performance that challenges dominant culture. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma: Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 008: Feeling pleasure and aliveness around sex: Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 21: Reclaiming the ancestral dreaming body: Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 007: Dancing with intention:: Heal ourselves and our ancestors through conscious movement by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 20: The magic of being fat: looking through an ancestral lens: Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex: Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling: UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 18: Shamanism, sexual wounds and healing: Listen as shamanic healer and teacher Christina Pratt, host of the Why Shamanism Now podcast and founder of the Last Mask Center speaks on holistic sexuality, the spiritual consequences of sexual violation, and the retrieval of soul... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 25: Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus: Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 16: Trauma as call to prayer: Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 30: Breaking the spell of dis-belonging: on land, bones and ancestral boners: Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 28: Where did they go? Finding the Queer and Trans Ancestors hiding in plain sight in our genealogy: LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death: Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 31: Learning boundaries with ancestors: Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 29: Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world

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